UW-Madison has finished building a backup website and changed some emergency communication practices in response to a power outage in June that darkened the university?s website and disabled nearly all electronic communication for a day.
A Fond du Lac man charged with rape on the UW-Madison campus told police he was drinking and doesn?t remember the alleged incident.
To help pay for the semester?s books or a weekend night out, many American college students hold down jobs at the campus library or gym. But when Alex Richter goes to work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he dons rubber boots, a white coat and a hairnet. Richter is a campus butcher.
As if University of Wisconsin students need any more reasons to be proud of their school, several recent college rankings provide the numbers to support the strong sense of school spirit.
University of Wisconsin-Madison staff will host an open house at Memorial Union?s new west wing Friday and Saturday nights to celebrate the space?s completed two-year redesign, according to a university release.
Authorities charge 21-year old Amory Waters with felony second degree sexual assault, claiming the Fond du Lac man pinned a UW-Madison student against a building and raped her after a night of drinking.
In Madison, Wisconsin, the I-Team has learned that two men are charged in a rash of separate sex attacks on or near the University of Wisconsin campus. These are the latest cases in a disturbing trend of college assaults.
Last season, our Chris Murphy did a tour of the neighborhoods on game day and found prices generally between $10 and $40. Things haven?t changed greatly since then.
The University of Wisconsin is monitoring students who travelled to Ebola affected regions in various parts of West Africa to guarantee safety among students and staff.
UW-Madison Police are launching a new campaign, hoping to encourage victims of sexual assault to report it to police.
Authorities say surveillance video was crucial to the arrest of a Fond du Lac man for the sex assault of a 21-year old UW-Madison student.
The rosary beads next to the foosball table in Sam Gagliardi?s apartment suggest he has both fun and faith on his mind this school year. The UW-Madison junior is one of the inaugural tenants of Lumen House, the unusual campus housing project undertaken by three Downtown Madison Catholic congregations.
Soloway is the subject of an extensive profile in this Sunday?s New York Times magazine. In it, she talks about her own father telling her he was transgender, as well as how the trans community is reacting to the show. She also recounts a pivotal moment that occurred when she was an undergraduate at the UW.
Of the 32 citations, 29 of them were issued to UW-Madison students, mostly for underage alcohol violations.
Still, ?it?s a no-brainer? that smokers who switch to e-cigarettes are reducing harm, said Doug Jorenby, clinical services director at UW-Madison?s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. ?Based on what we know at the moment, it?s almost beyond debate,? he said … The state of Wisconsin and UW Health are among Madison-area employers that have added e-cigarettes to their smoking bans, spokespeople said. The Madison School District plans to add them to its policy this year. UW-Madison allows e-cigarettes but plans to re-evaluate the issue this year.
When you think of Madison, “fashion” is probably not the first word that comes to mind. In our extreme winters, people are focused more on practical parkas than they are on Burberry trench coats. At the UW, in particular, a student budget doesn?t usually allow for quilted Chanel totes.
How many University of Wisconsin-Madison tailgaters do you know who knock back Jell-O jigglers not laced with alcohol on game day?
This guide will give you a place to start if you?re heading to your first Badgers game Saturday, or ? if you?re an experienced veteran who?s been here longer than Barry Alvarez ? remind you what makes football Saturdays in Madison so great.
The Ironman triathlon and the Wisconsin Badgers football game will have big impacts on traffic both in and out of Madison this weekend.
Noted: Most national universities are essentially the department stores of higher education. They provide a full range of goods for sale, with differences mainly in quality and price (Stanford is presumably Saks Fifth Avenue; the University of Wisconsin is perhaps Macy?s). These schools with a specialized mission are more like the funky boutiques that appeal to one particular type of customer and are certainly not for everyone ? but can be deeply satisfying to some.
As the school year gets underway, UW-Madison continues working with students who have traveled to the region affected by an Ebola outbreak to ensure safety on campus.
In 2007 a young man was killed in a house fire on UW Madisons campus. Now his parents are still working to make sure no one else is hurt.
An Ann Arbor family is furious at the plea deal extended to a former Skyline High School student who is accused of threatening a teenage girl over an anonymous social network. (Rishi Ragsdale is a former UW-Madison student.)
Noted: “These guidelines reinforce what a lot of colleges are doing already, but it would have been nice if they?d come out two weeks ago,” when students were arriving and health centers were unsure what to do, said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist with the University of Wisconsin at Madison?s student health service.
In 2007 a young man was killed in a house fire on UW Madison?s campus. Now his parents are still working to make sure no one else is hurt.
UW-Madison Police issued a new warning to students about the dangers of excessive drinking after finding a 25-year-old with a dangerously high blood alcohol content.
The quality of life is better in Madison than in every other large American city. That?s according to a study of the 100 largest U.S. cities by personal finance site NerdWallet.
Stories in the news lately include the sexual assault of a 21-year-old woman near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the investigation of two (maybe three) Brown University football players for sex assault, and the sentencing of a former UW football recruit for sex assault while he was visiting the Madison campus. As the fall semester gets underway, it?s a good time to call attention to this ongoing problem.
The free UW Cinematheque series raised over $35,000 through its fundraising campaign, enough to pay for improvements to its screening room at Vilas Hall. Chief among them was the purchase of a digital film projector, where the movies come not on a 35mm reel but a hard drive.
Beer, wine, cheese, sausage, soy sauce, sauerkraut ? it?s not hard to think of Wisconsin as a state in which fermentation is more than just a hobby.
An intoxicated University of Wisconsin-Madison student was taken to a hospital with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the level considered proof of intoxication for motorists in Wisconsin, UW-Madison police said Friday.
Wisconsin consumer protection officials are advising college students to be especially vigilant about protecting their private identity information.
Among his many achievements, Sopa was the first Tibetan to be tenured at an American university. That was in 1985 at UW-Madison, where he taught for 30 years.
With thousands of students moving into dorm rooms on the UW-Madison campus this week, construction workers are scrambling to finish projects sprucing up the surroundings.
South Korean pianist Yeaji Kim has been completely blind since the age of 13 and learned to play piano using Braille scores, meaning that each page of music was covered with three-dimensional bumps that made it possible for her to read printed music.
Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments. Hari Sreenivasan travelled to Wisconsin to report on one group hoping to turn the state?s student borrowers into a powerful voting bloc.
The streets will be buzzing downtown Madison on Wednesday, because it?s that time of the year again.
Bucky Badger gets the smiles and high-fives. Abe Lincoln draws legions of photo-seeking graduates.
Summer vacation is coming to an end, which means university students are moving into their dorms on Wednesday and Thursday. Several roads downtown will be down to one lane or will only be open to move-in traffic.
University of Wisconsin freshmen begin moving into the dorms this week, and with two sexual assaults taking place near campus in as many days, police are reminding students how to stay safe.
Most of the more than 7,400 UW-Madison students who live in the university?s residence halls will move in on Wednesday and Thursday, and that means there will be some street closures, UW Housing said.
A Madison man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree sexual assault for a sexual assault near the University of Wisconsin campus last week.
Just after 3 a.m. on Aug. 24, 1970, Vietnam War protester Karl Armstrong lit the fuse to a 2,000-pound bomb packed inside a stolen Ford Econoline van on the UW-Madison campus and sealed a grim milestone in Madison?s history.
Three women have been sexually assaulted by strangers on or near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week, and police believe two of the assaults may have been committed by the same man.
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A sexual assault on Madison?s Near West Side has prompted police to warn UW-Madison students of the dangers of walking alone late at night.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling joked that she?s spent 23 years recruiting the newest member of her force. But she wasn?t really joking.Riseling on Thursday swore in Ryan Bridges as a full-time UW police officer.
A 21-year-old Madison woman was sexually assaulted in a parking lot early Wednesday morning, according to a release from Madison police.
Three unrelated sexual assaults were reported between Sunday and early Wednesday in neighborhoods near the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
Sexual assault remains a persistent problem on America?s college campuses. Violence prevention expert Carmen Hotvedt of UW-Madison talks about efforts in Wisconsin to reduce, and hopefully eliminate, the problem.
When Willie Karidis graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, he took off for a summer job drilling for gold in Alaska because a friend said he was made for the place.
University of Wisconsin?s Chancellor Rebecca Blank got a taste of a second ?polar vortex? after accepting her nomination for the Ice Bucket Challenge Tuesday.
While Verveer said he?s been hearing fewer complaints from constituents about out-of-control parties than in years past, he said that?s been more a result of how police and campus officials have handled the problem.
The leaders of a University of Wisconsin-Madison college research organization and Dane County?s Boys and Girls Club said no public money was used when they helped Michael Brown?s three siblings secure college scholarships.
When summer seems to disappear faster than a brat at Camp Randall Stadium and your definition of a ?hot? day is 75 degrees, you tend to celebrate as much time as possible outdoors in the sunshine. That?s especially true when you?re a student or a visitor to the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Madison?s Wisconsin Hope Lab is responsible for securing full-ride scholarships for the three siblings of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old Missouri teen killed during a police shooting.
Ellenberg, who will speak Tuesday at Milwaukee?s Boswell Book Company, has been encouraging people to apply “the power of mathematical thinking” (to borrow his book?s subtitle) for years through his column for Slate, Do the Math, and other newspaper and magazine articles.
The 2011 Mifflin Street Block Party was a turning point in the event?s history, and figures released by the Madison Police Department this week show it.
The $53 million building, to be dedicated Saturday and open for classes next month, won?t only teach students differently. It will teach more of them, in an effort to help offset a projected shortage of nearly 23,500 nurses in Wisconsin by 2035.
Jordan Ellenberg is a former math child prodigy who has a PhD in mathematics from Harvard and is a current mathematics professor at UW-Madison.
